[FPSPACE] Burnt Frost starts to melt.. .!

[Jim Oberg]

What is your issue with the technical specs of USA-193 or any other
spookbird? Aren't you getting off track here, regarding the question
of the starting condition of the frozen hydrazine tank?

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From: "John Locker" <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk>
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Burnt Frost starts to melt.. .!


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> "too highly classified"
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> Covers a mutitude of sins Jim !
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> John
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Oberg" <jeoberg at comcast.net>
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>> Right. Nick Johnson told me his team confirmed
>> earlier studies. But those were done using actual
>> spacecraft data that made them too highly classified
>> for release. In these studies, parameters such as 'assumed
>> starting temp' were delivered without proof.
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Allen Thomson" <thomsona at flash.net>
>> To: "John Locker" <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk>; "FPSpace"
>> <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:03 AM
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>>> --- On Fri, 8/22/08, John Locker <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>> Under a Freedom Of  Information Act request Yousaf  Butt
>>>> has come up with some interesting information.
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>>> I wonder why it was necessary for NASA to do the modeling described,
>>> which
>>> was apparently a hurried, last minute affair. According to accounts of
>>> the
>>> lead-up to the intercept, things got moving in mid-December when Scott
>>> Large, NRO Director, approached the Missile Defense Agency and other DoD
>>> components expressing worry that the hydrazine tank would survive
>>> reentry.
>>> Presumably NRO had done its own modeling that justified the worry -- The
>>> Aerospace Corporation, a traditional NRO support organization, would
>>> likely have been responsible, and they generally do a competent job:
>>> http://www.aero.org/capabilities/cords/index.html.
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